The Trump Administration allows federal agencies not to take into account Musk’s E -Email command

The Trump administration has guided the federal agencies to ignore Elon Musk’s call to employees who fail to send weekly work summaries, leaving each agency to decide how to answer.

The Staff Management Office (OPM), which supervises the federal functions of human resources, informed Human Capital Officers about a call, reported The Washington Post, citing one of three people familiar with the situation. who spoke to the anonymous condition to discuss internal conversations.

Musk, a business tycoon and head of the Government efficiency department, has a significant power to reduce the federal labor of 2.3 million.

On Saturday, he said in a post on X: “In accordance with President Donald Trump’s instructions, all federal employees will soon receive an E -mail who request what they did last week. Failure to comply with the answer will be treated as a resignation ”.

Federal employees would receive an Email that requests a list of their work activities from the previous week, and if they did not respond until Monday at 11:59 pm, the eastern time would have considered it, he added.

The Email was sent to millions of people, including the federal judges and the employees of the legislative branches, causing confusion between the leaders of the agency who endeavored to apply guidance to their specific roles, the newspaper said.

Several agencies, including the Department of Justice, the FBI, the State Department, Pentagon, the Department of Energy, the Department of Internal Security and the Office of the National Intelligence Director, instructed their employees to ignore the request, the Washington Post reported.

Some departments did not have to reject Musk’s mandate yet, leaving the door open when the federal employees who do not comply.

Speaking Monday from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump rejected concerns about a schism between his administration and fodder X of Musk. He explained that the only exceptions from the E -mail of Musk came from the Agency’s leaders, including the FBI and the State Department, who were trying to protect the sensitive information.

“It does not mean this in any way combative, with Elon. They just say that there are some people who don’t want to tell them really telling you what work last week, besides that, everyone thought it was a pretty ingenious idea, “Trump said.